Bakeries and tortilla shops
System for bakeries and tortilla shops with delivery
You sell at the counter by the kilo or by the piece and deliver to stores in the morning. Nori runs both on one inventory.
The day starts before dawn
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5:00
The counter opens
The cashier opens her shift with the opening float. In touch mode she has photo buttons for rolls, sweet bread and a kilo of tortillas, arranged however you like.
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5:15
Today's bread comes in
You record what came out of the oven with a stock-in adjustment to the counter warehouse, so stock starts the day right.
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5:30
Delivery goes out
The day plan has the stores that get a delivery today and their orders. The Load sheet puts the last customer's goods at the back and the transfer moves the bread onto the truck.
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7:00
At the store
The driver taps Arrived, delivers the order and uses Pick up to record yesterday's unsold bread, with a reason. He collects cash or leaves it on credit if the store has a limit.
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9:00
Tortillas by the kilo
You put the package on the scale and the weight goes to the receipt. If your scale prints labels, the cashier scans them.
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14:00
Route settlement
The driver is back. What's left on the truck is counted, the picked-up bread is reconciled separately and his register is closed with its cash count.
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20:00
Closing and global invoice
Cash count and close at the register, the Z report and, in Mexico, if you issue it daily, the global invoice with the day's receipts.
Two businesses under one roof
A bakery or tortilla shop with delivery runs two businesses at once. At the counter it sells by the piece and by the kilo to people who pay cash and don't want to wait. On the route it delivers to stores and small restaurants that buy every day, many of them on credit.
The product doesn't last. What didn't sell at the store yesterday comes back on the truck, and if nobody writes it down, at the end of the month you don't know how much bread each customer returned or what it was worth.
That's why the counter and the route should draw from the same inventory, and the driver should account for his day the same way the cashier does. Nori keeps both in one place.
What bakeries and tortilla shops use most
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Sales by the kilo
Nori reads the scale connected to the register and calculates the price. If there's no scale, the cashier types the weight.
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Piece, dozen or kilo
The same item can have several sales units, each with its own price.
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Buttons your way
In Customize categories you arrange sweet bread, white bread and cakes, with a color and image. Favorites shows the best sellers of the last 30 days.
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Prices by time of day
A promotion can apply only on certain days and hours, for example cheaper sweet bread after eight at night.
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Credit for stores and restaurants
Each customer has their own limit. The driver collects open invoices during the visit.
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Global invoice
In Mexico, receipts to the general public are combined into a daily, weekly, biweekly or monthly global invoice.
Example
A Saturday at La Espiga Bakery
La Espiga Bakery is a made-up example: it has a bread and tortilla counter and a van that delivers to neighborhood stores in the morning.
On Saturday the van visits 18 stores. The settlement shows the pieces the driver picked up from the day before, kept apart from what goes back to the counter in good condition. At closing, the owner sees how much the stores and restaurants owe her before deciding who gets a delivery on Monday.
- Saturday counter sales
- $9,800
- Saturday counter sales
- stores visited in the morning
- 18
- stores visited in the morning
- pieces picked up from yesterday, with a reason
- 64
- pieces picked up from yesterday, with a reason
- outstanding credit from stores and restaurants
- $3,250
- outstanding credit from stores and restaurants
To get started
- Your list of breads and tortillas with prices by the piece, by the dozen or by the kilo.
- A photo or color per product for the counter buttons.
- The scale connected by cable to the register computer, using Chrome or Edge.
- The stores and restaurants on your route with their location, credit limit and delivery days.
- A phone for the driver and a Bluetooth printer if you want him to leave a receipt.
- In Mexico, for the global invoice: your digital seal certificate (CSD) and an invoice series set to stamp.
Frequently asked questions
Does Nori handle recipes or production?
No. Nori handles sales, delivery, credit and the inventory of finished goods. Bread that comes out of the oven is recorded with a stock-in adjustment.
Can a product be sold by the piece and by the kilo?
Yes. An item can have several sales units, each with its own price.
What do I do with bread the stores send back?
The driver records it with Pick up and a reason. It goes to the truck's returns warehouse, isn't resold and is reconciled separately in the settlement.
Can I lower the price of bread at night?
Yes. You create a promotion with hours and days of the week, and it applies on its own at the point of sale during that time.
Can a customer leave a down payment on a large order?
Yes, when the customer wants an invoice. The down payment is invoiced when you receive it and later applied to the order's invoice.
Related guides
- Sell at the point of saleTouch and keyboard modes, categories, scanner and scale, split payments, and what happens when the internet goes down.
- Work the route and settleWhat the sales rep does at each stop from their phone, the supervisor's live board, and settling the truck and the cash at the end of the day.
- Global invoice to the general publicRoll up the day's tickets (or the week's, fortnight's or month's) into one global invoice, and invoice customer deliveries in bulk.
- Discounts and promotionsWhere each line's price comes from, how to create a promotion with a schedule and conditions, and how to test it before your cashiers use it.
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